Neville Goddard meets Catherine Willa Van Schumus
Neville met Catherine Willa Van Schumus, a designer who became his second wife, between 1940 and 1941.
Person: Neville Goddard
Neville recounts, in a first-person lecture story, knowing at first sight that this woman would be his wife, and sailing with her to Barbados six months later where she met his mother and family; he places this in 1936, which the event's existing sourcing places closer to 1940-1941.
Neville says he and Catherine sailed to Barbados six months after meeting, where she met his mother and family.
Date (happened)
between 1940 and 1940
unresolved
between 1940 and 1940
stated · preferred
1936
stated · possible
Source
article text: 'We sailed for Barbados six months later... That was back in 1936.'
Why
Conflicts with the existing 1940-1941 claim (passage:98014); not resolved by this worker.
Reasoning
Neville states the year plainly in this telling, but it conflicts with the event's existing certain 1940-1941 claim from a different passage; kept as a lower-confidence alternate account rather than adjudicated, per the corpus's kept-maybes rule.
1936
stated · probable
Why
Neville says he knew at first meeting that Catherine would be his wife.
Reasoning
Neville's first-person retrospective anchors the courtship episode to 1936, while a secondary note elsewhere says 1940-41; the conflict remains explicit through probable confidence.
1936
stated · probable
Why
Same underlying contested date as hist_event:810; see that event's own three conflicting field_date rows for the full picture.
Reasoning
Neville states the year directly and in the first person. This is the same fact already tracked at hist_event:810, which carries a certain claim of 1940-1941 (from a Wikipedia biography) alongside two other probable/possible first-person 1936 claims (from a separate article and lecture excerpt); the two accounts conflict and are kept unresolved there per the corpus's kept-maybes convention. This is a third, independent 1936 account. Held probable rather than certain for the same reason: a direct statement in his own words, but contradicted elsewhere by an independently certain 1940-1941 claim.